The former president worried that a new deal with Iran will be far worse than the one that was in place until 2018

Barack Obama is deeply skeptical that the United States and Iran will be able to work out a deal better than the one that was in place before President Donald Trump‘s first term.

The Obama administration reached a deal with Iran in 2015. That deal saw Iran agreeing to limit its nuclear program, in exchange for an easing of sanctions put in place by the United States and the UN. President Donald Trump withdrew from the deal in 2018.

Obama discussed the withdrawal and subsequent war with Iran in an interview with ABC‘s Robin Roberts on Sunday.

“It is doubtful that any agreement that arises is going to be significantly different or a significant improvement from the deal that we had in the first place,” he said.

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      He did bomb the guys they sent to help Syria fight ISIS and Yemen defend itself from Saudi Arabia.

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        Extrajudicial drone killed a wedding party to neutralize a US citizen? Or am I mixing two events?

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              That’s not at all the point of this article or conversation. It’s about the deal with Iran and how bombing them isn’t going to be effective. It has nothing to do with anyone’s moral compass, just the Iran deal and bombing Iran.

              Had Obama said bombing the middle east is bad and Trump is bad for doing that, then you’d have a great point, but he didn’t, so you don’t.

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                    It’s extremely relevant. This is just another attempt to whitewash United States war crimes. A war criminal denouncing a war criminal when war crimes are the whole foreign policy of a nation means the whole foreign policy of a terrorist state should be viewed as a whole, in a continuum.

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      He bombed Pakistan. Your point?

      It doesn’t matter if there’s a difference on where you bombed, bombing one place and then calling someone else out for bombing is stupid